Improvement in cheese-hoops



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ABRAHAM D. WESTBBOOK, OF LAMBERTVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHEESE-HOQPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent- No. [79,833, dated July 11, 1h76; application tiled June 5, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABRAHAM D. WEST- BROOK, ot' Lalnbertville, in the county ot' Hunterdon and State ot' New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cheese-Hoops, which improvement is uliy set forth in the following specification, reference beine, had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l represents a transverse vertical section of a cheese-hoop provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan ot' my improved washer or ring. Fig. 3 is a transverse section ot' the same ona larger scale than the previous figures.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in the combination of a ring made of gutta-percha with the follower and ring of a cheese-press.

In the operation ot' pressing cheese the most common way is to piace a press-cloth under tended with certnin disadvantages. rlhe rings of wood soon become saturated with the whey, which causes them to swell, so that they can not b'e'easily removed from the hoop. The metallic rings do not produce good joints, and they are attacked by the whey, causing them to break, and the cheese, to become colored and spoiled. The elastic ringsof india-rub ber produce tight joints, hut. they are also attacked by the curd and Whey, whereby a had odor is imparted to the cheese, andthe cheese is liable to become colored. These elastic rings are also difficult to remove from the hoop when acheese has been pressed. All these disadvantages are obviated by myinvention.

The rings A, which I use, are made ot' guttapercha. Such rings have no more elasticity than rings made ot' Wood 5 they do not swell by the action of the curd or whey, nor do they impart any bad odor or color to the cheese; they can be readily removed from the press and replaced; they are easily cleaned, and they are superior in durability to rings made of wood, metal, or india-rubber.

I do not claim, broadly, as my invention the use of a packing-ring in a cheese-hoop, such having heretofore been used.

VVh-at I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The gutta-percha packing-ring A,as arranged in relation to a cheese-hoop and its fol lower, substantially as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

ln testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 29th day ot' May, 1876.

A. D. WESTBROOK. lL. s] Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHBER. 

